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As their costs began to soar due to the ATF price hike,

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While these instances show how genuine business interests suffered, crony capitalism was rampant. Tainted Chairman Ramalinga Raju had to, under compulsion of circumstances, admit to the Satyam fraud, while the government failed in terms of improving corporate governance standards! And while exporters in other sectors suffered, the IT sector was quick to pounce on the government to extend their 10-year tax holiday (in existence since 1999) to March 2010. As the aviation sector began to boom, players like Kingfisher & Jet were quick to expand routes and go shopping for aircrafts without understanding what lay ahead. As their costs began to soar due to the ATF price hike, these players were quick to cry foul, as their balance sheets threatened to bleed into oblivion. Jet created a lot of drama as it retrenched and later brought back some 850 employees last year when the government promised to help. But after the government enforced drastic cuts in ATF prices, airlines in fact developed cold feet initially when it came to reducing ticket prices. More recently, when RBI started cutting interest rates, and looked towards the banks to follow the lead, it only got a “Who, me?” expression in return!

UPA missed a great opportunity to make Indian companies world beaters. Rather, much remains the same or even worse after the UPA touch. And if Indian business has actually delivered in these years (at least before the slowdown), this government can claim little credit.


With inputs from Angshuman Paul, Neha Saraiya & Ratan Lal Bhagat


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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2008
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).


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